Word: cal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Heads to Fall? "It has been established that all these doctor-assassins, these fiends in human shape . . . were hired for eign intelligence agents," said the communiqué. The plotters deliberately cut short the life of Alexander Sergeevich Shcherbakov, the Kremlin's astute politi cal organizer of the Red army in World War II and one of the youngest (43) members of the Politburo when he died in 1945. They also "took advantage of the illness" of Strongman Andrei Zhdanov, creator of the postwar Cominform and the rumored heir to Stalin, who died in mysterious circumstances...
Most Washington hostesses of proper vintage remember Mrs. Grace Coolidge as the woman who was most to be admired during the years after Mrs. T. R. Her quiet charm put all at ease - a considerable feat, since Silent Cal sometimes had a servant rub Vaseline into the presidential hair while he ate breakfast, once ordered a toupee painted on the Red Room portrait of bald John Adams, and often almost paralyzed guests with his wordlessness. The Herbert Hoovers spent a great deal of money on entertainment, but their era was one of work and worry. Eleanor Roosevelt had little interest...
...California line, rated one of the best in the nation, stopped the pile-driving running of Wisconsin's Alan ("The Horse") Ameche five times within its 30-yd. line. Running into the same kind of opposition (a total of 48 yds. through the hard-tackling Wisconsin line), Southern Cal turned to another football fundamental: the booming punting of Southern Cal's Desmond Koch, who broke a Rose Bowl record with one 72-yd. boot, averaged better than 50 yds. a kick...
Williams has always wanted to coach. Born in Mars, a small town close to Pittsburgh, he attended the University of Pittsburgh, from which he was graduated in 1931. Short and wiry, he played wingback--a left-handed one, too--for Pitt, travelling to the Rose Bowl in 1930. (Southern Cal murdered us," he recalls...
...offenders: Ala.--1C 48788; Cal.--1C 58783, 7B 74548; Col.--11-266-33; Conn.--SI 640; Delaware--126288; District of Columbia--J4437; Ill.--289790, 972534, 1505796, 1901083, 1970376, 2317057; La.--404247, 483948; Me.--443, 217532; Md.--322339, Mich.--DK 6516; Minn.--103987; Mo.--K40827, 314064; N. J.--HB 65 T, EA 96 A. NJ 206, KI 603; PM 691, EG 1785, HH 1900, CB 5802; N.M.--8-208; N.Y.--CP 244, CO 309, 4V 2201, KB 2207, CW 3315, 6C 3842, 6W 6062, RG 6353, 2V 8369, PW 9032, SUB-112508; Ohio--T888, CU 1226, H4082...